FAITH CAPSULE: Looking up to God should not be just at times of challenges.

Psalm 34

Lazarus was dead by the time Jesus got to his cave. Stone was rolled against his coming back to life; hope was shattered, mourning and grieve were in place. Above all, there was no medical practitioner recorded to be on ground because it was finished for Lazarus. Jesus, the Commanding commander gave a command that the stone be removed. He requested for open door for hope to be restored. It is written, “So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me. When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.”(John 11:41-44) Among the actions of Jesus for Lazarus to come back to life was that, Jesus looked up for divine intervention. He was setting up example for us to know and to always look up when all hope is lost. Jesus looked up and gave thanks. Jesus did not look to man; He did not look up to complain but He looked up to giving thanks for expectation that was yet at hand. Who are you looking to? How are you looking up?

In the face of any challenge a true believer should never look anywhere except to look up with expectation unto the Almighty God, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent God. Believer that is true to the core should look up to the only one who is “…the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy (Isaiah 57:15). Whenever deception, delay, denial, or destruction, knocks or shows up unexpectedly He is always there for us to look up to Him. Many giants in the hand of God repeatedly looked up to Him in the course of their journey while they were on the face of the earth. You can always look up to him for direction, provision and for every area of need. Looking up to God should not be just at times of challenges, but also at the time of lifting His Holy name high. It is recorded in, Psalm 34:5, “They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed.” Is there any confronting shameful situation that is set against you? In waiting for the Lord God of Israel, He will acknowledge you when your eyes are set on Him. The book of Micah 7:7 also buttressed looking up, “Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.” Begin to look up to God for His divine intervention.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to always look up only to Him.